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6ta Reunion del grupo de trabajo de la red CaribVET en La Habana Cuba, objetivo: Erradicar la peste porcina clásica del Caribe.

Especialistas en enfermedades porcinas del Caribe, así como representantes de diferentes organizaciones (USDA, CENSA, CIRAD, FAO, OIRSA, OIPORC) y ministerios del Caribe, participarán en la sexta reunión del grupo de trabajo de enfermedades del cerdo de la red regional CaribVET. Dicha reunión se llevará a cabo en el hotel Chateau Miramar, en La Habana Cuba del 3 al 5 de agosto del 2016.

El objetivo principal es definir una estrategia clara para el apoyo eficaz a los países del Caribe en el diagnóstico, control y erradicación de la Peste Porcina Clásica.

Este encuentro será posible gracias al trabajo colaborativo entre CaribVET la red de salud animal del Caribe, el Centro Nacional de Sanidad Agropecuaria (CENSA...

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Animal Disease Recognition and Response Training Workshop held in Saint Lucia
As part of the “One Health, One Caribbean, One Love” project, funded by the European Union, co-funded by the 10th European Development Fund SPS Project and implemented by the University of the West Indies (UWI)’ a training workshop was held in Saint...
11th CaribVET Steering Committee Meeting - Good animal and veterinary public health, the key to a safe and prosperous region
PRESS RELEASE (St. George’s, Grenada) 12 April, 2016 - “The Caribbean Animal Health Network, CaribVET, continues to work in earnest with its partners to safeguard the animal and veterinary public health of the Caribbean region”, affirmed Dr Kathian...
How Barbados is preparing for Avian Influenza
Following the recent outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in North America and Canada, Barbados has increased wild bird surveillance and has put measures in place to improve biosecurity within the poultry industry. As part of their...
The 14th conference of the international society for veterinary epidemiology and economics
CaribVET was well-represented at this important forum on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics which is considered one of the biggest conference in this domain worldwide. Several papers of the network and the Epigenesis project were accepted as oral...
Understanding the threats of the next waterfowl migration season for poultry
According to reports to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the global impact of both Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) and Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza (LPAI), in terms of loss of poultry and the number of countries reporting...

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Quick Review of the litterature - Biosecurity and surveillance are highlighted

The highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) subtype H5N2 affecting turkey and egg producing flocks in the upper Midwest in United...

Avian influenza threatening America again

On January 15th 2016 the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)...

Dominica conducted Avian Influenza field simulation exercise

Roseau, 31 July 2015

The Dominica Poultry Association in close partnership with the Livestock Development Unit of the Ministry of...

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